Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Geneva newshawks spent the week pecking their hardest at Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff in efforts to get him to say that, even if France did NOT aid Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union would do so anyhow. In a very long speech Commissar Litvinoff went no further than to divulge that the Red Army Staff had recently been anxious to join the French & British Army Staffs in conversations about how joint action could be taken against Germany. Although repeatedly complaining that the Red Army had not been invited to sit in, the Soviet Commissar answered at no time during...
...eclipse of Commissar Litvinoff last week left the Geneva limelight to Premier Dr. Juan Negrin of Leftist Spain. In a noble speech, upholding with Spanish fervor the ideals of the League, Dr. Negrin cried: "Once foreign intervention in Spain has been eliminated, I can assure you a policy of national conciliation, conducted under the firm, energetic direction of an authoritative government, will make it possible for all Spaniards to forget these years of conflict and cruelty and will rapidly re-establish domestic peace. Then the harsh trials of the present times may be regarded in our country as a baptism...
...Foreign Office with tears in his eyes, crying: "Do you want to see a man convicted without a hearing? Here I stand!" In Moscow, the Czech Minister Zdenek Fierlinger exclaimed he was positive Russia would "march," but no other Moscow diplomat thought so, and in Geneva the Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff would only say through a secretary: "This is a very delicate matter...
Over the bleak, barren hill of Changkufeng on the Siberian-Manchukuoan border seven weeks ago snarled the fighting forces of Japan and Russia. Moscow claimed the whole hill was in Soviet territory when the scrap started. But when a truce was finally arranged between Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff and Japanese Ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japan was left with her present firm hold on the westward slope of Changkufeng. Russia agreed to submit final ownership to arbitration, thus gave up her previous absolute claim to Changkufeng. For this truce Japan last week was ready to pay off in kudos. Tokyo dispatches...
...lucky was Russia's Assistant Commissar for Foreign Affairs, Boris Spiridonovich Stomoniakov, for years the top Soviet authority on the Far East, and adviser to Commissar Litvinoff on the Changkufeng dispute. In Moscow last week it was officially announced that Old Bolshevik Stomoniakov, who joined the Communist Party in 1902, was kicked out of his Foreign Office job on August 7-the day when 110 Soviet tanks, 40 warplanes, heavy Russian field artillery and some thousands of Red Army troops were beaten back after Soviet Far East Marshal Vasily Bluecher had hurled them in a major offensive to recapture...